​BILL ANNOUNCES:Straydog Radio Show covering the events of Thursday, September 22, 2016. Bill and Juana here with the Thursday report.

JUANA:September 22 is actually the birthday of two of my sons. They are both named Jose, but everyone knows them as Roberto and Gordie and they were both born on the same day.

BILL: Happy Birthday, Jose and Jose!

JUANA: They were born on the same day, six years apart.

It was a good day at our shelter. We finally had enough people to work in the kennels and give the dogs more caregiving time. Tyler finished Ebony and Nelson’s shelter. He worked on their porch roof today. ​We got several pictures of kennel work.​

​While Maci was working in George-dog’s kennel and she was cleaning his pool. George was running around. Maci was laughing at him and hugging him. He always wants to be hugged. It’s such a good picture.

Maci is cleaning George's pool. He gets excited when someone is in his kennel.

George is such a happy dog and he always wants to be hugged.

​Catherine was the walker in Pat Arnold Park. She was about to take Fatso, Miss B and blind and deaf Colt to the park. You can see that Fatso and Miss B were all excited and ready to go. This morning Colt wasn’t ready to go. He was sound asleep. He has a great sense of smell. He smelled her right away and he was ready to go to the park. It is amazing, how well he can smell.

It's park time for these three, Fatso and Miss B are ready to go but blind and deaf Colt is sound asleep.

Colt's sense of smell is so good right away he can tell Catherine is in the kennel. He knows exactly what's going on, it's park time!

All leased up and ready to go.

​BILL: We heard a special on the radio yesterday. Dogs can smell so much better than humans. They have millions more receptors and they have stereo nostrils. Each nostril is separate and they can tell which direction the smell is coming from. He gets his pictures of the world, basically through his nose. He can also feel.

JUANA: We were talking about the fact that all of the dogs need their sense of smell more than their sight or hearing. They don’t hear as well as they can smell.

BILL: This poor guy can’t see or hear, but his sense of smell is amazing.

​JUANA:Lacie came to help us and she trimmed some of our dogs. We have some long-haired babies inside. They looked so nice, when Lacie finished them. She trimmed Angel2. She’s a Shih Tzu and Lacie trimmed her face and she looked so pretty.​

​Lacie was working on Peanut there and she’s looking pretty good.

Peanut is being such a good girl while Lacie grooms her.

​Melanie used to work for us and she came to Straydog to volunteer with Lacie that morning. She helped check our dogs and trim nails. When Lacie comes to Straydog, we do a lot more doctoring and extra things that we can’t normally do. We just don’t have the time. Last week, when our vet came to Straydog and vaccinated our dogs, she found that a lot of our dogs’ ears were infected and she sent us some BNT. Melanie and Lacie treated five dogs with ear infections with the BNT. One of them was Snickers. Marco and Noel also had infections. I didn’t get pictures of all of them.

Lacie and Melanie have Snickers in the feeding gate doctoring her ear.

She is such a good patient.

Next was Marco's turn to have his ear doctored up.

And then Noel, they all seemed happy to have their ears tended too.

​This is Winston with Storm and Thunder.

Winston is still with them and they are all doing so well. I’m not sure when we took Storm to the vet. I know that before Dr. Dumeyer vaccinated the dogs, she, Lacie and the new vet tech Ashley examined all of the dogs. The doctor found that Storm had another tumor in her throat. We took her to the vet the very next day and it can’t be removed. It has gone completely down her throat. There’s no way to get it all out. It started about two years ago, when she had a cancerous tumor on her gums and the doctor removed that one. It hasn’t come back until now. Now it is all of the way down her throat and they can’t take it out. She’s doing well. She’s eating and acting okay. The doctor sent her home with antibiotics. We will just have to keep her comfortable until she’s ready to go. We will know, when it’s time. She’ll stop eating and she’ll slow down. We’ll know then what to do. In the meantime, she’s playing and eating and we will just give her all of the love that we can.

​Ranger had a bad episode about a month or so ago and he’s come back. He’s about 95% or more and he’s doing very well. He hasn’t had any more seizures. He is still living indoors and he’s eating very well. He and Beauty run to the park by themselves. Their kennelmate Shep passed away and it’s only Beauty and Ranger now.

After returning from the park Ranger gets a treat from Ronnie.

Ronnie gives Ranger a pat and tells him he's a good boy.

Ronnie ask Beauty if she's ready for her treat.

Of course I am she tells Ronnie.

We did a lot of caregiving and doctoring. Jacob was the walker in the Shirley Olsen Beemer Park. ​We checked MoMo and Aggie for ringworm. Aggie never got ringworm, but her kennelmate MoMo had it for about four months. He was the first one to start it and the last one to be healed. We got them out of quarantine and they went to the park. We took a ton of pictures of them in the park, because it’s been so long since they went to the park. They were running and playing. MoMo almost didn’t know what to do, because he was so excited to be in the park and it’s been so long since he’s been there. It was the cutest thing. They are amazing dogs.

Jacob taking MoMo and Aggie to the park for the first time in a while.

They are so ready to go and can't wait to get there.

Once in the park Jacob lets them off leash and playtime begins.

They enjoyed being out in the park very much and we are very happy they are able to go once again.

​It was Thursday and our volunteer Polly came to Straydog as she usually does. She doesn’t stay as long as she used to. She’s in her mid-80s and she has so much to do. She goes around the neighborhood and feeds stray cats. She has about three kitties in her own house and two dogs. She still comes to Straydog to volunteer every Thursday and she still cooks for us. She’s amazing and we all love her. She always brings a cake or a pie or cookies or fudge that she makes for us. Her son rescued Beretta. He was driving and he accidentally hit Beretta. He took her to Morton Clinic and paid all of her bills, because she bruised her pelvis. She had been at Morton’s for a long time and we brought her to Straydog and put her in a temporary kennel.

We decided to introduce her to Mickey. I had Mickey and Ronnie had Beretta. It was amazing! They started running and playing. She’s heartworm negative and her hip is better. These dogs are both so very friendly and they ran all over the park and had so much fun together. I called Polly to come to H2 and see them.

Ronnie asks Beretta is she would like to go meet Mickey.

You bet she says, let's go!

All seems good.

Mickey wants to be the alpha.

Beretta's fine with that.

Playtime has begun.

Beretta says come on in, the waters fine.

Mickey jumps in for some of the water fun.

Polly’s son felt so badly and he wanted to adopt Beretta. But he already had two big German Shepherds and he couldn’t. I told Polly to tell her son that Beretta was in a good place. She has recovered and she’s healthy and happy and she has a friend. We had to move Ranger and Beauty indoors and we moved Travis and Maria to Ranger and Beauty’s kennel. Then we had to remove Travis and Maria’s kennel because the electric company trimmed a tree and it was in danger of falling over onto their kennel. We had to remove the entire kennel, while we had someone cut the tree. The guys fixed the kennel and we had this kennel available, so we put Beretta and Mickey there.